Trépanier, Guy

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Origin: Portneuf-sur-Mer - Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦
Biography:

Guy Trépanier , born in Portneuf-sur-Mer in 1948, is a singer-songwriter and record producer from Quebec.

He is, among others, the co-founder with engineers Billy Swalowszki and Bruno Ruffolo of Studio Concept.

After studying music, at the age of 22 he launched his first eponymous album recorded at Studio André Perry and produced by Marc Fortier on which play Serge Fiori ( Harmonium ) and Real Desrosiers ( Beau Dommage ), two musicians still unknown. Success is instantaneous. Then followed, in 1973, the album Suite et debut , followed by Pour un Guy Felix (1974), Guy Trépanier IV (1977) and finally Fragile/L'hiver (1979).

In the 1980s, he became exclusively a composer. In 1984 , he composed the song Je l'aime that Nicole Martin and Martine St-Clair sing in duet, then he founded with engineers Billy Swalowszki and Bruno Ruffolo the Concept Group (which includes a record label and a recording studio ).

The first release of the Concept Group was an album by its founder entitled On court, on court après... which was released in 1985 . Then follows the same year the collective album Noël, nuit de paix, some songs of which are interpreted by Guy Trépanier himself. A year later, the soundtrack for the series Lance and Count is released .

In 1988 , the soundtrack of the film The Frog and the Whale was released, then, in 1989, volume 2 of the series Lance et compte and the first musical album of the series Le club des 100 watts . Volume 2 appeared in 1991, closely followed on the Intermède Communications label by the album Noël , where he performed holiday hits in English.

In 1992, he produced Renée Martel 's album Authentique and then, the following year, Annie-Major Matte 's first album , a Christmas disc entitled Les petits Noëls (which would be reintroduced on the market in 1999 by ICE Multimédia under the title Adibou discovers the holiday season ).